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[Page 13, Saddams Aggressions against US]
[Sept. 11, 2001, cont’d]
“In the past four months [prior to September 11, 2001] at least three high-ranking Iraqi intelligence officials - among them Hassan Ezba Thalaj, a veteran officer with a reputation for ruthlessness - have visited Pakistan to meet representatives of al-Qaeda. Previous visitors have taken large sums of money with them, including Ahmed al Jafari, a senior Baghdad intelligence officer who took £420,000 18 months ago. Other funds have been forwarded via banks in Lebanon.” (London Telegraph, telegraph.co.uk, Sept. 23, 2001, “Alert by Saddam points to Iraq” by Jessica Berry in Jerusalem, Philip Sherwell and David Wastell in Washington.)
“Iraqi intelligence bankrolled lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in the months leading up to the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil Atta met as many as four times in Prague with Iraqi intelligence agent Ahmed al Ani prior to the 9/11 attacks. ... [D]uring one of these meetings, al Ani "ordered the [Iraqi Intelligence Service] finance officer to issue Atta funds from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office." (Newsmax, Nov. 15, 2003, citing Weekly Standard, citing in turn joint memo of the CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, citing in turn Czech intelligence, Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross, and five high-ranking members of the Czech government ].)
g. Saddam’s Preparation for Anticipated American Retaliation
In early September, 2001, shortly before the September 11 attacks, Saddam placed his troops on the highest state of alert and with his family retreated into heavily fortified bunkers in Tikrit, evidently fearing retaliation for the imminent attack on the U.S. (See Con Coughlin, Saddam: The Secret Life, 2002, Harper Collins, p. xxv.);
“SADDAM HUSSEIN put his troops on their highest military alert since the Gulf war two weeks before the suicide attacks on America in the strongest indication yet that the Iraqi dictator knew an atrocity was planned.” (London Telegraph, telegraph.co.uk, Sept. 23, 2001, “Alert by Saddam points to Iraq” by Jessica Berry in Jerusalem, Philip Sherwell and David Wastell in Washington.)
h. Saddam Celebrates the Attack and Takes Credit
In November, 2001, bin Ladin was proclaimed Iraq's "Man of the Year," but an official poem gave Saddam the credit for the attack by the four hijacked planes;
“On December 3, 2001, a poem was recited by Sheikh Ali Bin Shallal, head of the al-Sharji tribes, at a meeting with the tribal chiefs of Basra and Maysan—and Saddam Hussein. It is highly likely this will startle you, here is the text:
“From inside America, how five planes flew.
Such a mishap never happened in the past!
And nothing similar will happen.
Six thousand infidels died.
Bin Ladin did not do it; the luck of the president [Saddam] did it.’”
(Ryan Mauro, Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden: A Match Made Up in Propaganda?, http://www.worldthreats.com,)
[Page 14, Saddams Aggressions against US]
[Sept. 11, 2001, cont’d]
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, troops found murals in Nasiriya (by marines on March 26, 2003) and in Baghdad (by the Third Infantry on April 13, 2003) at Iraqi military centers depicting the World Trade Center at the awful moment of attack, the former showing Iraqi planes as the perpetrators and the latter depicting Saddam celebrating along side of the burning twin towers;
“U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in this southern city [Nasiriya] that was the site of intensive fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing into a building complex resembling New York's twin towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday. [¶] The plane's logo and coloring resembled that of Iraqi Airlines, said Getty Images News Service executive Brian Felber, based in New York.” (NASIRIYA, Iraq, CNN, March 26, 2003, 1st Marine Exped. Force.)
“Major General Buford ‘Buff ' Blount, commander of the Third Infantry Division, stood in the middle of a dusty parade ground yesterday at a militia training center, billows of black smoke rising behind him from yet another destroyed target of Iraqi resistance. As Blount watched, his soldiers unfurled a large mural they had discovered at the facility. There, in vibrant hues, a beaming image of Saddam Hussein, victory cigar in hand, had been painted beside a rendering of the World Trade Center at the awful moment of attack. ‘God protect Saddam and Iraq,’ the artist inscribed in Arabic.” (Brian MacQuarrie, Boston Globe, 4/13/2003, p. A39; Baghdad, Iraq. )
7. Anthrax attacks in September 18, 2001 - October, 2001
In the days following September 11, anthrax letters were mailed, anthrax being a bioweapon used by Saddam;
“Speaking about the beginning of US retaliation for 9/11, Uday Hussein wrote the following in the Iraqi state media: ‘At this stage it is possible to turn to biological attack, where a small can, not bigger than the size of the hand, can be used to release viruses that affect everything.... The viruses easily spread by air, and people are affected without feeling it.’[77]” (Ryan Mauro, Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden: A Match Made Up in Propaganda?, http://www.worldthreats.com, citing Radio Free Europe, October 19, 2001.) Uday Hussein, wrote this in Babil on September 20, 2001, before any news had come out about the Anthrax-laced letters mailed on September 18, 2001. (Cf. Wall Street Journal, "Saddam and the Next 9/11", Feb. 14, 2003.)
“Britain's Guardian newspaper reported Sunday that American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack -- and have named Iraq as the prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. [¶] “The Guardian notes that in liquid form, anthrax is useless - droplets would fall to the ground, rather than staying suspended in the air to be breathed by victims. [¶] ‘Making powder needs repeated washings in huge centrifuges, followed by intensive drying, which requires sealed environments. The technology would cost millions.’ [¶] The London paper quoting CIA sources as saying that ‘Iraq has the technology and supplies of anthrax suitable for terrorist use.’. . . [¶] American officials have already revealed that anthrax bacteria used in the recent attacks is the ‘Ames strain’ of anthrax originally cultivated at Iowa State University in the 1950s. Iraq is believed to have that strain.” (WorldNetDaily, December 26, 2003, linking Geostrategy-Direct, a subscription-based service produced by the publishers of WorldTribune.com.)
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